COP 15 conference - Hopenhagen
Last updated 12/15/2009 11:44:18 AM
COP 15 conference - Hopenhagen
From the first point of disembarking at Copenhagen airport there is a great welcome of hope. Visuals are plastered, pasted and glossed over walls and surfaces along walkways of the city’s climate change campaign ‘Hopenhagen’.
Hopenhagen is a vision of a healthy future, and its image of two bright button-like boys flexing their muscles extends towards that.
The same campaign waits for everyone travelling on the bright and airy metro, which holds the same design presence as Tate Modern’s entrance.
At ground level: the open space, the fresh chill kissing you, the zillion festive lights twinkling and the joyous jingles singing out the Christmas wish-list of climate change campaigners.
In the recent past days the conference has taken an unexpected turn, one, that a Danish friend expressed in disbelief as: “We’re still in shock”, at the arrests of nearly 1000 protesters from last Saturday’s peaceful demonstration. And yesterday, African delegates walked out from the conference days before world leaders are due to fly in to agree on resolutions promising that 2010 and beyond will bring hope.